User Reviews

I've purposely waited until I've seen the majority of episodes before giving a review. The first episode was almost surreal, I felt like I'd stepped into a parallel universe, Pamela Anderson being the only other person from the same planet. It has improved, and has cheered up my Saturday Nights, the format is utterly insane, I find myself enjoying the characters interplay more then the game show/interview format, the jokes are corny as always, but delivered in a way that makes me laugh. Something almost old fashioned, but somehow comforting about the show, it's delivering humour I'd have had growing up as a young kid in the 1908's, gone forever I'd thought, but not. It's doing pretty well in the ratings, getting six million plus week on week. Six million people can't be wrong, can they?

When there's nothing else to do on a Saturday Night, a glass of red wine, and this will fit the bill, but no longer then six weeks please. 6/10

I have fallen in love with Brendan O'Caroll's Mrs Brown's franchise; but I am saddened with the fact that a good part of the show has been cut out of the dvd's - like the bands playing.

It would be nice if in the future this could be rectified.

I gave up about half way through the first episode. It simply isn't funny, the script was bad and the material just not interesting.

The involvement of celebrities such as Pamela Anderson, in episode #1, is just stupid and boring. Involving individuals from the audience is a bad idea and makes this show annoying and unwatchable. Selecting the "Mother of the week" from the audience and giving her some prices... I just cringed when watching the sorry excuse for a show!

The concept for this show should have been thrown in the rubbish-basket before launching it. What were the creators thinking?

Anyone expecting more funzies with Agnes Brown and her brood will be sorely disappointed in All round to Mrs. Browns. This most recent incarnation of the Mrs. Brown character features Agnes as host of, believe it or not, a talk show, complete with cooking segment and audience participation. Agnes' daughter Cathy interviews people I've never heard of (although viewers in the UK do, I assume.) Dermott and his sidekick Buster, normally good for laughs are given their own segment which falls flat on its face in the episodes I was able to get through. Agnes interviews members of the audience, who, I grant you, look like they're having more fun than you will watching them. There's a mummy of the week segment which is rather charming, and then, for some inexplicable reason, there's the aforementioned cooking segment. All round to Mrs Browns is a major disappointment. Being a fan of Mrs Brown's boys, I was expecting an hour of fun and laughter, but, in the end, I had to force myself to watch four epsodes before I finally gave up. Oh and by the way, I didn't laugh once.

I don't quite know how to describe this, other than a spin off from the sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys. The settings and characters are the same and even though real people are brought into be interviewed, the characters stay the same, as if they are real people themselves. Sort of the opposite setting to where Jeremy Kyle had a crossover with soap characters on his show, talking to them as if they and their plots were real. Jamie Theakston and David Frost have done similar material to this.

I honestly feel it that is was nice to see the consistency between the sitcom and this title. If I am totally honest though, the sitcom was starting to wear a little thin after three series, with a concerning amount of what appeared to be recycled material, including some from the earlier live shows.

One good example of this would be a section entitled "The Cathy Brown Show", where Jennifer Gibney interviews the celebrities in the guise of her alter ego, Cathy Brown. Thankfully it was normally two as opposed to the normal three, otherwise the material would have most likely been so thin, it would have snapped! Cathy is hindered in her show by her own mother, much to her dismay, however this was a very similar situation found in The Kumars at Number 42.

A third celebrity would appear in the section regarding Dermot and Buster in the recap of their substandard guided tours business.

A good part was the "Thought For The Day" in which the two religious characters Trevor and Farther Damien would give a short discussion in a silly but humorous and non-offensive manner. I also thought the rest of the show would have been made less vulgar but was not the case. I'm not even sure where I got that thought from to be honest.

As a result of all this, the mixture of the comical settings and interaction with real celebrities and members of the public was not as interesting as it would sound. I found it very tedious in parts. I would be very interested to see if this series gets a commercial release and if so, how well would it sell?

After the last episode aired, it was announced it would be back next year. Surely if it was that good, they would want to strike while the iron was hot and make it sooner?